Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear sister was talking about you only today at tea . |
| 2 | Dyson tried over inside his head : ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning poor old Eddy was talking about Stanley Cunningham 's funeral … |
| 3 | Alarmed by the case , foreign governments are talking of retaliation . |
| 4 | I believe that the Hon. Gentleman is talking about what might have been within the scope of new clause 6 had Mr. [ Mr. Deputy Speaker ] |
| 5 | The right hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense on stilts , and he knows it . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman is talking absolute nonsense , as will be confirmed when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister makes his statement to the House later this afternoon . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense and yet again trying to mislead the public on the achievements of hospital trusts . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is talking a lot of nonsense . |
| 9 | I have to say that I have no idea what the hon. Gentleman is talking about . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman is talking characteristic nonsense . |
| 11 | As the right hon. Gentleman is talking about matters in which there may be joint agreement , and as he has visited Langbaurgh and Hemsworth in recent days , will he comment on the fact that both the Labour party candidates for those constituencies have invested in newly privatised industries ? |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman is talking about transaction costs . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman is talking about the financing of sport . |
| 14 | I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is talking about . |
| 15 | We are providing ample Committee time for consideration of evidence of the type about which the hon. Gentleman is talking . |
| 16 | She would also need money — and the stability the old man was talking about . |
| 17 | At the next table a German couple were talking loudly and beyond them a middle-aged man on his own occupied a table for three . |
| 18 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 19 | But that 's gon na take about five or six years to come to frui fruition because all the er chief constables are talking about it and if anything works slowly it 's chief constables . |
| 20 | Most of those who discussed human variety were talking about the differences in the physical appearance of human individuals , though they often mixed up characteristics which now seem to be plainly innate , such as skin colour , with characteristics which are plainly cultural , such as mode of dress . |
| 21 | The white men were talking to Goreng . |
| 22 | The National Trust is talking to two landowners with the aim of buying the valley : |
| 23 | As a result , European customers are talking down machinery prices . |
| 24 | The authorities in Beijing realised that ‘ many college students … suffered serious mental problems because of loneliness or anxiety over their studies or love lives ’ ( CD 23. 2. 1988 ) and several major institutions were talking of the possibility of setting up advisory bodies for students with emotional problems , but few actually existed . |
| 25 | Vicky , however ( for in that long night 's talking we had moved to Christian names ) , was not daunted . |
| 26 | ‘ Some of our major customers were talking about EDI , and we realised that if our competitors were offering the facility and we were n't it would score against us . |
| 27 | We can only hope , given the disparaging tone of this review of the nation 's youth , that these good doctors were talking about somebody else 's children . |
| 28 | telephone conversation took place , as if two deaf people were talking to each other on a rowdy main road , but fragments of conversation filtered through as Frau Nordern repeated what Karl , presumably , was saying . |
| 29 | ANIMAL-LOVER Jackson is talking to London Zoo chiefs about a possible financial rescue . |
| 30 | ‘ Your work is still creating interest , and the women of the Fabian Society are talking of following it up with a scientific examination of the social and economic condition of the women in the poorer parts of London , carrying on where Booth in his great survey of poverty left off . ’ |